Paper-file.



M. SLTRIPLETT.

PAPER FILE. APPLICATION FILED 05c. 11, 19M.

1, 1 85, 1 48 Patented May 30, 1916.

MILTON S. TRIPLETT, OF RECTORTOWN, VIRGINIA.

PAPER-FILE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May so, rare.

Application filed December 11, 1914. Serial No. 876,676.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MILTON S. TRIPLETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rectortown, county of Fauquier, and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper-Files; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention relates to paper files, and has for its object to provide a file preferably formed of a suitably supported single piece of wire having an extreme portion thereof bent into the form-of a loop, the extremity of the wire at the looped portion being pointed for the purpose of perforating the papers to be filed, and so positioned with respect to an intermediate portion of the wire as to cause the latter to serve as a guard for the pointed wire extremity.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure l is a broken side elevation, partly in section, of a file constructed in accordance with the invention; Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the manner in which the supporting stem for the sheet-perforating portion of the file may be made in removable sections, and how indexing elements may be used on the stem to identify several sets of papers on the file chronologically, or according to any other suitable system; Fig. 8 is a side elevation showing the sheet-perforating portion of the file supported by a suitable base, and showing the position which a paper assumes just after it has been pierced by the sheet-perforating point and while it is being passed around the loop to its final position; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view illustrating the position in which the paper is preferably held just prior to being pierced by the sheet-perforating point.

Referring to the drawing, the main portion of the file, or the sheet-perforating por tion, preferably comprises a single piece of wire 1 having one extreme portion thereof bent to form an integral loop 2. If so desired, the wire at two substantially opposite points of the loop may be bent into close proximity, as shown at 3. This is not essential, but may be found desirable for the purpose of supporting the file on a hook, nail or the like, at which time, the smaller half of the loop, formed at 4 by the displacing of the sides of the loop at 3, serves to retain the file on the supporting hook or nail, in an obvious manner.

The extremity of the wire at the'looped end thereof is pointed, as shown at 5, for sheet-perforating purposes. The loop 2 is so bent that in its final position, the pointed extremity 5 of the wire lies adjacent an intermediate bend in the wire at the base of the loop, as shown at 6. The sheet-perforating point 5 of the extremity of the wire 1s so disposed with respect to this bend 6 of the main body portion of the wire, that the latter will constitute a guard for the pointed extremity, and will thus prevent in ury to the person using the file, as the guard portion 6 prevents the pointed extremity from engaging with the hand or fingers, as w1ll be apparent from the drawing.

The sheet-perforating portion of the file, as above described, may be supported in any suitable manner, but preferably 1t 1s designed to cooperate with and be supported by a sectional stem portlon. For this purpose, the extremity of the w re 1 opposite the looped end is provided w1th a threaded portion 7, which may be screwed into a corresponding threaded portion provided in any one of a plurality of the stem sections 1. Each of the stem sections 1 is provided, at one end, with an internally threaded opening for receiving either the threaded extremity 7 of the file proper, or a similar threaded extremity, provided on each stem section at the end opposite the internally threaded extremity, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Certain of the stem sections 1 may be provided withan index, shown at 8, which index may contain any appropriate descriptive matter pertaining to the classification of the papers on the file. For instance, each index may contain the name of one or more months, as shown in Fig. 2, if a chronological filing system is resorted to. Additional stem sections 1 may be inserted as occasion requires, to provide a greater length of wire for the accumulation of the papers. Before the number of papers becomes sufficiently large to warrant the use of extra stem sections 1, the main portion of the file 1 may be supported directly by a suitable base 9, then -as the papers accumulate, additional stem sections 1 may be inserted. Fig. 3 shows a single stem section 1 inserted between the main filing portion 1 and the base 9. \Vhen these sections are so inserted, the main filing portion 1 is unscrewed from the base 9, a stem section I screwed into the base 9 in lieu of the main filing portion 1, and the latter screwed into the top of the inserted stem section, as will be obvious from Fig. 3. As the papers further accumulate, other stem sections may be inserted, any or all of which may be provided with the indexes above described, to properly separate the different sets of papers according to any desired classifying system. hen the papers are so filed, any number of connected sections may be removed, and if desired, such sections may be stored away and the papers retained thereon in their classified condition. When the classification of the papers is started, a stem section may be inserted in the file having a suitable stop 10, (Fig. 2), which obviously need have no classification information thereon, if the first index above such stop indicates the classification of all the papers lying over the stop 10. hen several of the sections are removed, as above described, to be stored away, the stop 10 then serves to retain the papers in place.

The papers are filed by folding the same transversely, as shown in Fig. 4, and piercing the paper at one side of the fold, but not at the other side. In other words, only one thickness of the paper need be pierced. The paper is then drawn upwardly and directed around the loop 2, at which time, the lower portion of the paper will be freely drawn between the pointed extremity 5 and the guard portion 6, as exemplified in Fig. 3. The paper is directed around the loop 2 and down on the stem portion to its ultimate position. It will be noted that during this operation, there is no danger of the pointed extremity 5 injuring the fingers or hands, as said pointed extremity is so dis posed and guarded by the portion 6, that it cannot pierce the hand or fingers.

What I claim is 1. A paper file comprising a single piece of wire having a bend and a looped extremital portion formed from the wire at one side of said bend, the extremity of that portion of the wire forming the loop being pointed for sheet-perforating purposes and positioned to lie in the same plane with said bend and the loop, and the pointed extremity of the wire being directed toward said bend and terminating closely adjacent thereto, for the purpose described.

2. A paper file, comprising a length of wire having a looped extremital portion, the end of the wire at said looped portion being pointed for sheet-perforating purposes and the wire at two substantially opposite points of the loop being bent into close proximity, for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I alfiX my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

' MILTON S. TRIPLETT.

Witnesses ARTHUR L. BRYANT, JANIE RUSSELL TRIPLETT.

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Washington, D. 0." 

